Racing for Rosabel – Get your Tuesday Race Day off to a Winning Start.

Thu, Jun 06, 2019

It’s the heart of the Summer festival season and the racing event of the year each July/August is Galway Race Week. This can only mean great racing, fashionable dress, stunning headpieces, patrons punting and music throughout the week in the Summer air. Following on from last year’s success, The Skeff Late Bar, Eyre Square, Galway in conjunction with Money Maximisers Advisors Ltd are getting in on the fun with a tipster and style afternoon in aid of Rosabel’s Rooms on Tuesday 30th July from 12.30pm to 3.00pm at The Skeff. “Racing for Rosabel” is a pre-race event, full of entertainment, style and racing tips surrounded by the buzz and atmosphere in Eyre Square.

Greenway campaigners boosted by election results

Thu, May 30, 2019

The Western Rail Trail campaign — The campaign to utilise the route of the closed railway from Athenry to Sligo as a greenway until such time as a railway might be possible again has welcomed the election results in Sligo, Galway and Mayo.

2020 profile and election set to influence choice of Mayor

Thu, May 30, 2019

Negotiations to shape the balance of power in Galway City Council are set to commence tomorrow in order to form enough support to select a mayor at the first meeting next week.

With Fianna Fail holding five of the 18 seats, they seem best placed to gather enough support for a rainbow coalition to take control of the Council for the next five years.

Digital platform Her.ie to transform Galway Races Best Dressed Ladies event

Thu, May 30, 2019

Galway Races announced Last evening (Wednesday) that Ireland’s leading digital destination for women, Her.ie will be taking the reins as title sponsor of the 2019 Best Dressed Ladies Competition 2019 on Thursday, August 1. This exciting new sponsorship is part of a three-year deal and marks the 150th anniversary of the iconic summer festival.

And so the people have spoken...

Thu, May 30, 2019

Elections and election counts are like horror films or high-rides in a funfair. From a distance, they all seem like they might be good craic, but when you get into them, you kind of regret you ever did.

Myself and my colleagues in this newspaper, and indeed in all media across the country will be on a sort of detox for the coming week to rid us of the lack of fresh air, of proper food, of anything resembling minimum sleep; or the almost hypnotic jump that we make when we hear anyone saying “A dhaoine uaisle” as we did when returning officers Gary McMahon and Alan Farrell got to their podiums on hundreds of occasions last weekend.

Swedish royalty impressed by cutting edge research at Marine Institute

Thu, May 30, 2019

King Carl XVI Gustaf and Queen Silvia of Sweden visited the Marine Institute headquarters in Oranmore tlast weekend as part of a three-day state visit.

Galway credit unions combine to launch innovative ProEnergy Homes package

Thu, May 30, 2019

Four Galway Credit Unions have come together to bring all their members a brand new loan package, ProEnergy Homes — an end-to-end package for energy saving home improvements, up to 35 per cent SEAI grant and a low rate credit union loan.

Green tsunami is a media-led, Dublin myth, says Fitzmaurice after weekend elections

Thu, May 30, 2019

Independent TD Michael Fitzmaurice has raised some concerns regarding the media response to the performance of the Green Party in the Local and European elections.

36 extra special needs assistants supporting pupils in Galway, says Kyne

Thu, May 30, 2019

Seán Kyne, Government Chief Whip, Aire don Ghaeilge, don Ghaeltacht agus do na hOileáin has confirmed that 864 Special Needs Assistants will be supporting pupils in schools across Galway for the coming school year. The total reflects an increased allocation of 36 extra Special Needs Assistants for Galway.

Thieves make off with whacking plate

Thu, May 30, 2019

Gardai in Oranmore are seeking help in tracking down thieves who who broke into a container on a building site this week.

Travellers still live in ‘substandard’ conditions, says new report

Thu, May 30, 2019

A new report, just published, says members of the Galway Traveller community continue to live in “deplorable” and “substandard” conditions.

HSE reassures Naughton that Sherwood House will not treat sex offenders

Thu, May 30, 2019

Dep Hildegarde Naughton said this week she had been assured that the HSE would not offer outpatient appointments to sex offenders at a new facility, Sherwood House, located beside a city primary school.

Concerns had previously been raised that the community mental health facility, located behind Scoil Fhursa, would offer treatment to outpatients with a history of sex offending behaviour as part of its remit.

Great savings at Anthony Ryans ‘Massive Warehouse Sale’ at Galway Racecourse

Thu, May 30, 2019

Thousands of shoppers are expected at Galway Racecourse this weekend for the Anthony Ryans Massive Warehouse Sale which runs for four days from this Friday May 31st to Bank Holiday Monday June 3.

NUI Galway microbiologists launch new online teaching initiative

Thu, May 30, 2019

Microbiologists at NUI Galway are putting the subject in the spotlight with the recent launch of an ambitious student-centred, video-teaching initiative.

Both GAA players associations sign scholarship deal with GMIT

Thu, May 30, 2019

The Gaelic Players Association (GPA) and the Women’s Gaelic Players Association (WGPA) have announced a number of new scholarships open to members of the organisations, in association with Galway-Mayo Institute of Technology (GMIT). The scholarships are jointly funded by GMIT and the associations.

Mrs Doyle’s Tea Party raises €13,400 for Malawi project

Thu, May 30, 2019

Mrs Doyle’s Tea Party which took place in our house just over three weeks ago in Stradbally North, Clarinbridge was an outstanding success. To date €13,464.08 has been raised so far for Project Malawi with more contributions to come.

130 People to swim across Galway Bay this July

Thu, May 30, 2019

Now in its 14th year, the Frances Thornton Memorial Galway Bay Swim in aid of Cancer Care West returns to the waters of Galway Bay this July.

What the tallies tell us - Galway City East

Sat, May 25, 2019

The morning is over and it is well into afternoon now. Already we are looking at changes in the city’s political landscape - and also at how some things remain the same.

Galway City Central - the Green’s spring a surprise in Martina O’Connor

Sat, May 25, 2019

It was long pegged as the electoral ward with the most to offer. For political anoraks and analysts this was the one with the ‘get in the front row and get the popcorn out’ factor - this was the one that asked big questions.

The faits accomplis and the known unknowns

Sat, May 25, 2019

THE TALLIES have answered many questions and left plenty of others unresolved. While the count for Galway city progresses slowly, the political analysts and anoraks fill in the long gaps with number crunching.

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